Organization Change: Theory and Practice

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The Second Edition provides an overview of the theoretical and research foundation for our current understanding of organization change, including the nature and types of change organizations experience. The author reviews various models, including the one developed by Burke and Litwin, and uses cases to demonstrate how the models can be used to diagnose change issues in organizations. Emphasizing planned, revolutionary change over the gradual, evolutionary change organizations typically experience, Burke combines and integrates theory and research with application for insight into all aspects of organization change.

W. Warner Burke is the Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education, coordinator for the graduate programs in social organizational psychology and chair of the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.

Sources of Understanding Organization Change

Introduction

Potential Literature

The Tipping Point

Rethinking Organization Change

The Paradox of Planned Organization Change

Making the Case for Organization Change

Personal Declarations and Points of View

A Closing Request

A Brief History of Organization Change

Scientific Management

The Hawthorne Studies

Industrial Psychology

Survey Feedback

Sensitivity Training

Sociotechnical Systems

Organization Development

The Managerial Grid and OD

Coercion and Confrontation

Management Consulting

Theoretical Foundations of Organizations and Organization Change

Open System Theory

Characteristics of Open Systems

Organization Change is Systemic

Toward a Deeper Understanding of Organization Change

Capra's Three Criteria for Understanding Life

Implications for Organizations and Organization Change

The Nature of Organization Change

Revolutionary Change

Evolutionary Change

Revolutionary Change: Case Example

Evolutionary Change: Case Example

Levels of Organization Change: Individual, Group, and Larger System

Change in Organizations at the Individual Level

Individual Responses to Organization Change

Change in Organizations at the Group Level

Group Responses to Organization Change

Change in Organizations at the Larger-System Level

System Responses to Organization Change

Organization Change: Research and Theory

Reviews of Organization Change Research

More Recent Approaches to Research and Theory

Organization Models

Organization Change Theory

Current Thinking Regarding Organization

Change and Theory

Conceptual Models for Understanding Organization Change

Content: What to Change

Process: How to Change-- A Theoretical Framework

Process: How to Change-- Practice Frameworks

Mini-Theories Related to Organization Change

The Content and Process of Strategic Change in Organizations

Strategies for Effecting Change in Human Systems

Integrated Models for Understanding Organizations and for Leading and Managing Change